Monday, February 18, 2013

Happy Monday, peeps! Hope you had a good weekend! Today’s Merry Monday challenge is to make an elegant Christmas card:

I got this beautiful image recently from my friend Martha, and I thought it would be perfect for this challenge! Here we go:

It was stamped in Midnight Muse; mounted on a piece of silver glimmer paper, then mounted on a Midnight Muse card base. This is the easiest card I’ve ever made…and look how gorgeous it is with its beautiful Dazzling Diamonds glitter (hard to see, so you’ll have to take my word for it!):

Just to show that “elegant” doesn’t have to be complicated! I hope you’ll find some time to play along with us this week with your elegant creation! It’s great to have your Christmas cards started!!!! Be sure to stop over at the Always Playing with Paper blog to see the other designers’ creations as well!

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Happy Sunday, everyone! Today’s challenge is brought to you by Anne Marie! Here you go:

Oooh, what a fun challenge! CAS, buttons, bows, babies….how cute can you get? I pulled out Every Little Bit’s teddy bear for my card, along with a scrap of pink gingham paper, as I know I will be needing a little girl baby card very soon!

(I seem to be using this Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder a lot lately!!) I made a paper heart-shaped button and tied a bow with some white organdy ribbon…..my teddy is stamped in Stazon and colored with an aquapainter and inks, then cut out and popped up:

Squeal! I love this! CAS = easy!!! I hope you’ll play along with us this week….we can’t wait to see what you create! Check out what the other designers did as well over at the Paper Players blog! Any questions….shoot me an email!

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Happy Saturday! Today is my daughter’s birthday – it’s a big one!!! I got this stamp set back when the new SU catalog came out, just because I knew I could use this image for her….she loves to country line dance!!!

I used a tag from Two Tags and mounted my paper-pieced cowboy boots on top….added a glimmer brad and some ribbon and twine, and it’s done! BTW, when I got this stamp, I cut the sentiment apart from the boot image…..I like being able to stamp it anywhere I want!!!

I wheeled the background and used some images from Artistic Etchings as well as the Spring mini set Collage Curios; the doily was a little too big to fit my panel, so I pleated it a bit and added my heart, butterfly and key embellishments:

And of course, it is filled with some yummy goodies!

For a friend of mine who LOVES chocolate, I made a heart candy kiss holder after seeing this on Martha Stewart’s website:

It’s a bit difficult to see, but it has two little petal-shaped pockets; I made this one out of some heavier-weight DP from my “other” friend Martha!! I started out with a 6x6” square, followed the directions for folding and cutting it out, and then embellished it with some little doodads and a pretty gingham ribbon. There is a video that you can see here that explains the process a little more clearly than on the MS website.

Finally, this little treat came from my sweet friend Frenchie….she sent this all the way from Florida for Cassidy:

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I am a SU demonstrator who loves all kinds of papercrafts as well as crosswords, knitting, cross stitch and sewing. My sweet hubby John patiently puts up with all of my crafting! I also have a beautiful daughter Dana as well as a sweet granddaughter who brings us joy and laughter! We are a Christian family and strive to glorify the Lord in all we do. You can reach me at leanne.pugliese@gmail.com